Preakness Stakes 2025 Entries & Odds

The 150th running of the Preakness Stakes (Grade I), the second jewel of the Triple Crown, is set for Saturday, May 17, 2025 at historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.

When is the Preakness Stakes?

The Preakness Stakes is on Saturday, May 17, 2025

Where is the Preakness Stakes?

The Preakness Stakes is raced at Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore, Maryland

When is the field drawn for the Preakness Stakes?

Post positions are scheduled to be drawn Monday, May 12 at Pimlico.

Where can I bet and watch the Preakness Stakes?

Wager and watch the Preakness Stakes via your OTB player account with OffTrackBetting.com or just watch the race live on TV with NBC with a post time of 6:45 p.m. ET.

Bracket Buster & Gosger possible for Preakness

April 13 - Gosger and Bracket Buster both are possible for the 150th Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico after finishing 1-2 in Saturday's (April 12) $400,000 Stonestreet Lexington Stakes (G3) at Keeneland.

While not committing to the 1 3/16-mile Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, Gosger trainer Brendan Walsh and Bracket Buster trainer Vicki Oliver both said after the race that their colts earned consideration for the May 17 Preakness at Pimlico Race Course.

Gosger wore down front-running 25-1 shot Bracket Buster in the final sixteenth-mile for a two-length victory in the 1 1/16-mile Lexington. It was Gosger's first start since winning a Gulfstream Park maiden special weight race in his second start on Feb. 15.

Bracket Buster was making his first start at age 3. In his last start, he finished fifth in Churchill Downs' Oct. 27 Street Sense (G3). The first three finishers that day were Sovereignty, Gulfstream's Coolmore Fountain of Youth (G2) winner and Curlin Florida Derby (G1) runner-up; Louisiana Derby (G2) winner Tiztastic, and Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Sandman.

"He's still got a lot of maturing to do," Walsh said of Gosger. "He's still a little raw. But I love what I saw today. He was a little green, but he beat a couple of really nice horses. I think he's a very nice horse in the making. We gave him a little time off after his maiden win because I felt, when I looked at him, that he was doing a lot of growing. Even in the paddock today I was thinking he still has a bit of filling out to do.

"[Jockey] Irad (Ortiz) said he only really got going and straightened out when he got to the second wire (a sixteenth-mile past the finish for Keeneland's 1 1/16-mile races). He said he really started to run then, which is a very encouraging thing to hear. It's always nice to win a nice race like that with a young horse, a lightly raced horse. I think he's got some big days in front of him."

Asked about the Preakness five weeks later, Walsh said, "We'll see how he comes out of this. There is a nice bit of spacing to it, and if he was doing well we'd have to consider it, absolutely. I thought at the start he could potentially be a Kentucky Derby (G1) horse, but we brought him down to Florida and had a maiden race planned for him and he got sick... He's making us be patient, but he's paying us back for it."

Gosger is campaigned by the family of Harvey Clarke, the late breeder of 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another. Gosger's second dam, Arch's Gal Edith, is the mother of I'll Have Another. Gosger's sire is 2016 Florida Derby and Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, who finished third in the Preakness.

Bracket Buster in his third start won a 1 1/16-mile maiden race Oct. 9 at Keeneland at 33-1 odds, followed by his fifth place in the Oct. 27 Street Sense.

"I thought he ran really, really well," Oliver said. "I wish we'd had a race in him before this race, but it was just the way it set up. We gave him a long break and just decided this was a better spot than the allowance race that was a big, huge field. We took our shot here, and it paid off."

She said the Preakness is a possibility.

"He's always been in consideration for the 3-year-old stakes," Oliver said. "That's why we didn't really push on him for the early, early 3-year-old races on the Derby trail. He's a late, late May (22nd) foal and needs a lot of time to develop, and that's what we gave him. He's run in very, very tough company, so he's proved to everyone he can be a part of all of this. It's just if we get the right trip and the right place and hopefully we get lucky."

Others being considered for the Preakness are Hill Road, third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) and Tampa Bay Derby (G3), and UAE Derby runner-up Heart Of Honor. The April 19 Tesio at Laurel Park and Bathhouse Row at Oaklawn Park will be 'Win and In' Races for the Preakness as long as the winners are Triple Crown eligible. The Oaklawn Handicap on the 19th will also be a `Win and In' for the Pimlico Special (G3).

Preakness Stakes 150 - Total of 16 Stakes, Eight Graded, Worth $4.3 Million May 16 & 17

Feb 6 - Headlined by the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes (G1), Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, a total of 16 stakes, eight graded, worth $4.3 million in purses will be contested Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 at historic Pimlico Race Course.

First run in 1873, the Preakness is the second oldest of the Triple Crown races, predating the Kentucky Derby (G1) by two years. The inaugural Belmont Stakes (G1) was held in 1867.

The $2 million Preakness, contested at 1 3/16 miles, will anchor a May 17 program of 10 stakes worth $3.25 million in purses including the $250,000 Dinner Party (G3) for 3-year-olds and up and $150,000 Gallorette (G3) for fillies and mares 3 and older, each going 1 1/16 miles on the grass, and $150,000 Maryland Sprint (G3) for 3-year-olds and up at six furlongs.

Other supporting stakes on Preakness Day are the $150,000 Chick Lang sprinting six furlongs and $100,000 Sir Barton at 1 1/16 miles on the main track and $100,000 James Murphy going one mile on the turf, all for 3-year-olds; $125,000 Skipat for fillies and mares 3 and older at six furlongs; and $125,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint, a five-furlong dash for 3-year-olds and up.

Returning the Preakness Day lineup will also be the $100,000 UAE President Cup (G1) for 3-year-old Arabian horses, run at 1 1/16 miles.

The 101st running of the $300,000 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2) for 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/8 miles tops six stakes, three graded, worth $1.05 million in purses on Friday, May 16. It is joined by the historic $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) for 3-year-olds and up at 1 3/16 miles and $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3) for sophomore fillies sprinting six furlongs.

Also on the traditional Preakness Eve program are the $125,000 Allaire du Pont for fillies and mares 3 and up at 1 1/8 miles and a pair of turf stakes - the $125,000 Hilltop for 3-year-old fillies going one mile and $100,000 The Very One for fillies and mares 3 and older sprinting five furlongs.

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